KNAVISH
KNA'VISH, adjective na'vish. Dishonest; fraudulent; as a knavish fellow, or a knavish trick or transaction.1. Waggish; mischievous.Cupid is a knavish lad,Thus to make poor femal...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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KNAVISHLY
KNA'VISHLY, na'vishly. Dishonestly; fraudulently.1. Waggishly; mischievously.
KNAVISHNESS
KNA'VISHNESS, noun na'vishness. The quality or habit of knavery; dishonesty.
KNAWEL
KNAW'EL, noun naw'el. A species of plant.
KNEAD
KNEAD, verb transitive nead. To work and press ingredients into a mass, usually with the hands; particularly, to work into a well mixed mass the materials of bread, cake or past...
KNEADED
KNE'ADED, participle passive ne'aded. Worked and pressed together.
KNEADING
KNE'ADING, participle present tense ne'ading. Working and mixing into a well mixed mass.
KNEADING-TROUGH
KNE'ADING-TROUGH, noun ne'ading-trauf. A trough or tray in which dough is worked and mixed.
KNEBELITE
KNEB'ELITE, noun neb'elite. [from Von Knebel.] A mineral of a gray color, spotted with dirty white, brownish green, or green.
KNEE
KNEE, noun nee. [Latin genu.]1. In anatomy, the articulation of the thigh and leg bones.2. In ship-building, a piece of timber somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent,...
KNEE-CROOKING
KNEE-CROOKING, adjective nee'crooking. Obsequious.
KNEE-DEEP
KNEE-DEEP, adjective nee'-deep. Rising to the knees; as water or snow knee-deep
KNEE-HIGH
KNEE-HIGH, adjective nee-hi. Rising to the knees; as water knee-high
KNEE-HOLLY
KNEE-HOLLY, noun nee'holly. A plant of the genus Ruscus.
KNEE-TRIBUTE
KNEE-TRIBUTE, noun nee'tribute. Tribute paid by kneeling; worship or obeisance by genuflection.
KNEED
KNEED, adjective need. Having knees; as in-kneed, out-kneed.1. In botany, geniculated; forming an obtuse angle at the joints, like the knee when a little bent; as kneed-grass.
KNEEHOLM
KNEE'HOLM, noun nee'home. Kneeholly.
KNEEL
KNEEL, verb intransitive neel. To bend the knee; to fall on the knees; sometimes with down.As soon as you are dressed, kneel down and say the Lord's prayer.
KNEELER
KNEE'LER, noun nee'ler. One who kneels or worships by kneeling.
KNEELING
KNEE'LING, participle present tense nee'ling. Falling on the knees.
KNEEPAN
KNEE'PAN, noun nee'pan. The round bone on the fore part of the knee.
KNELL
KNELL, noun nell. Properly, the stroke of a bell; hence, the sound caused by striking a bell; appropriately and perhaps exclusively, the sound of a bell rung at a funeral; a tol...
KNEW
KNEW, preterit tense of know.
KNIFE
KNIFE, noun nife; plural knives; nives.1. A cutting instrument with a sharp edge. Knives are of various shapes and sizes, adapted to their respective uses; as table knives; carv...
KNIGHT
KNIGHT, noun nite.1. Originally, a knight was a youth, and young men being employed as servants, hence it came to signify a servant. But among our warlike ancestors, the word wa...
KNIGHT-ERRANT
KNIGHT-ER'RANT, noun [knight and Latin errans, erro, to wander.]A wandering knight; a knight who traveled in search of adventures, for the purpose of exhibiting military skill, ...
KNIGHT-ERRANTRY
KNIGHT-ER'RANTRY, noun The practice of wandering in quest of adventures; the manners of wandering knights.